Mingshi

Chapter 1118 Good News

"If you are told to stay, you will stay. What are you talking about?" Luo Xin stared at him, and that guy withered, and obediently followed Lu Daqing down.

Hu Zongxian and Liu Shouyou sat for a while, and then left full of thoughts.Luo Xin sat alone in the second hall, and the officials passing by all walked lightly, they could feel that the atmosphere was not right.

Besides, that fan was arranged by Lu Daqing, and there were five fans sitting in his room at this time.They came here together, the other four fans looked at the fan who met Luo Xin and said:

"Brother Wang, why are we staying here? Isn't Your Majesty anxious for us to bring back Lord Luo's letter?"

"What can I do?" Brother Wang said irritably, "Master Luo asked me to stay, what can I do?"

"But...we won't go back, the old ancestor..."

Brother Wang stood up and walked back and forth on the ground.After a while, he paused and said, "I'll write a letter to my ancestor first. You two, Li San and Zhang Kui, will send the letter to my ancestor."

"Good!" Li San and Zhang Kui nodded.

Brother Wang spread out the paper, picked up the pen and began to write. He wrote down everything that happened after meeting Luo Xin, as well as everything that Luo Xin, Hu Zongxian and Liu Shouyou said.Then put it in the envelope and seal it.Handed it to Li Sandao:

"Go back to Beijing immediately."

"Yes!"

The two quickly left the room.

Luo Xin stood up, walked out of the door, came to the yard, looked at the gloomy clouds in the sky, sighed softly, and said in a low voice:
"Cousin, it should be here."

"Master Hou!" Lu Daqing's voice came from behind.

"What's the matter?" Luo Xin asked softly without turning his head.

"People are coming from the sea." Lu Daqing said softly.

Luo Xin's spirit was lifted, and he suddenly turned his head and said, "Where is it?"

A person walked in from the door, and saluted Luo Xin: "I have seen Master Luo."

"follow me!"

Luo Xin led the man to the study, and then closed the door.The man knelt down in front of Luo Xin with a plop and bowed again:
"I pay homage to my lord."

"Get up!" Luo Xin helped the man up and said, "Liu Qiang, how is it?"

"My lord, we have already conquered the aboriginal people in Lingnan. In fact, Ming Dynasty only occupied one-third of the territory in Lingnan. Most of the territory is still in the hands of the aborigines in Lingnan. We hold swords and guns in one hand and fine wine in the other to wait for what they urgently need things, and quickly subdued those natives. It is really like what the lord said, rice can be planted three times a year, and there is a lot of food there. We just use some things that they don’t have there, especially the glassware we produce. If there is a mirror, it will be exchanged for a large amount of food.

Now 2000 million shi of grain is about to arrive at the port.Food will arrive later.Paddy has already started to be planted in Lingnan, and it will mature in three months.It can fully meet our needs. "

Luo Xin waved his hand and said: "It is impossible to fully meet the needs. After all, Daming is too big, and now it can be said that most of the country is suffering from famine. But with the food from Lingnan, it is still possible to keep the people of Daming from starving to death." Yes. When will the fleet arrive?"

"Two days. I will definitely arrive in two days."

A relaxed smile finally appeared on Luo Xin's face. Daming suffered such a natural and man-made disaster all of a sudden, how could Luo Xin not expect serious consequences?

You don't need to look at the reports from various places to know that the consequences are very serious.Therefore, he got in touch with Luo Sheng very early on, and asked them to take Lingnan at all costs, and get food from there. It is not required to feed the people of Ming Dynasty, as long as they can drink a bowl of thin food every day, so as not to be hungry Just die, stick to the autumn harvest, everything will get better.

Moreover, this is also a rare development opportunity for Taiwan and the grasslands. After taking Lingnan, Taiwan and the grasslands will have grain depots, and they can use these grains to exchange with Daming for ironware and other materials that they have been lacking.

"What's going on in Wa country?"

"Soon, in another six months, all Japanese warriors who resisted us will be driven into the sea, and we will occupy the entire Japanese country. Then we will develop while destroying the Japanese pirates at sea."

"very good!"

"How about the prairie?"

Luo Xin asked again, the attack on Lingnan this time, because most of Taiwan's troops are in the Japanese country, and if they want to destroy the Japanese country in the shortest time, they need to allocate some troops to patrol the sea, intimidate the Japanese pirates, and make them not Dare to enter the Ming territory.Therefore, there are really not many troops to capture Lingnan.However, Taiwan does not have it, but the grasslands do.Taiwan only needs to provide a small amount of troops, as long as it has ships, and the troops are provided by the grasslands.Therefore, this time, the grassland and Taiwan jointly captured Lingnan.Upon hearing this, Liu Qiang had a smile on his face and said:
"My lord, I heard from the people in the grassland that they have already opened half of the Silk Road, and it is estimated that in one or two years, they will be able to fully open the Silk Road."

"Great!" Luo Xin was overjoyed, stood up and walked back and forth on the ground twice, then stopped and said, "Liu Qiang, stay here first."

"Yes, my lord." Liu Qiang stood up, saluted Luo Xin, and then retreated.

"call……"

Luo Xin let out a long breath, came to the table, and began to spread out the paper to write the memorial.

After writing the memorial, Luo Xin ordered Lu Daqing to invite Liu Shouyou, Hu Zongxian, and the heads of the five great families.Soon, these people came to the second hall.Luo Xin had already set up a banquet, and seeing Luo Xin not only had a smile on his face, but also set up a sumptuous banquet, they were inexplicably relieved.In particular, Hu Zongxian can be said to be the one who witnessed Luo Xin's legend in the southeast, so he believed in his heart that Luo Xin must have come up with a solution to the Ming Dynasty's problem. He just sat down and said with a smile:

"No, what's the good news?"

"There must be good news!" Luo Xin said with a smile: "However, there are many things that bother my brother."

This time not only Hu Zongxian's eyes lit up, but also Liu Shouyou's.The two couldn't help looking at the five masters. From their point of view, Luo Xin called the five masters, it must be the five families who were going to sell grain to Luo Xin.With Luo Xin's prestige in the southeast, his relationship with the five great families is really not a problem.

In fact, the five major families had already made preparations. Although they were not as deep as Luo Xin thought, they did not expect that in a month's time, Da Ming would probably fall into the scene of bandits and wars everywhere.But he also knew that Daming was short of food.Therefore, they are already prepared to sell all the food they have enough to eat to Luo Xin, and it doesn't matter if they even donate some.Seeing Liu Shouyou and Hu Zongxian looking over at this time, the five masters looked at each other, and Lu Ding said:

"Lord Luo, our five families have calculated that each family can take out 50 shi of grain, each family will donate 40 shi, and the remaining 250 shi will be sold to the court at the market price. This is 300 million shi, and our five families can still do it." Mobilizing other people to sell grain, it should be no problem to collect 400 million shi for the adults. If it goes well, we should be able to get [-] million shi."

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